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A great blog post showing how to backup an ssd with squashfs and dd.
Here is a pdf version

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I would like to know if someone is using the ssh on my servers. That’s why I have put a telegram notification. Here is how it works

Put in ssh/sshrc

#!/bin/bash

telegram-send -g "Access $SSH_TTY $SSH_CONNECTION `id`" &

Of course you need to setup your telegram-send

Lets run those command on the machines

Pull the files locally

scp -i ~/.ssh/somekey ec2-user@10.1.22.1:/new.txt  /tmp/new.txt
scp -i ~/.ssh/somekey ec2-user@10.1.19.1:/old.txt  /tmp/old.txt

Then use this great delta tool to compare the files

delta -s /tmp/new.txt /tmp/old.txt

Using md5 sums

And a using md5 sums – this is slow!

# On the new instance

find / -xdev -type f -exec  md5sum {} \; > new-files.txt
find / -xdev -type d | sort > sorted.new-folders.txt
sort  -k2  new-files >sorted.new-files.txt 

# On the old instance

find / -xdev -type f -exec  md5sum {} \; > old-files.txt
find / -xdev -type d | sort > sorted.old-folders.txt
sort  -k2  old-files >sorted.old-files.txt 

Create a script with the commands to pull the files and the remove them from the remote server

get -r upload/* incoming/
rm upload/*

You will need a cron

0 5 * * * /usr/bin/sftp -b batchfile.sh user@sftp.example.com

I recommend using systemd so that you can have logs

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We are migrating from Cloudflare to route53 and want to make sure that all the records are migrated correctly.

records = %w(
  www
  blog
)

records.each do |record|
  aws = `dig +noall +answer www.example.com |tr '\t' ' ' | cut -d' ' -f1,3,4,5`
  cf = `dig +noall +answer www.example.com @1.1.1.1|tr '\t' ' ' | cut -d' ' -f1,3,4,5`

  if aws != cf
    puts("\nerror:")
    puts(aws)
    puts(cf)
  end
end

Do you enjoy switching between us-east-1 and eu-central-1? If not here are some shortcuts which might make your day.

function change_region(){
  folder_name=`pwd`
  new_region=$1
  old_region=$2
  new_folder="${folder_name/$old_region/$new_region}"
  cd $new_folder
}

function production(){
  change_region 'terraform_production' 'terraform_development'
}


function development(){
  change_region 'terraform_development' 'terraform_production'
}

function us(){
  change_region 'us-east-1' 'eu-central-1'
}


function eu(){
  change_region 'eu-central-1' 'us-east-1'
}